Browsing: Development & Policy

One of the more chilling pieces I have read in the last little while is Aarathi Krishnan’s piece “‘A whole…

This article reports on ongoing monitoring of mobile internet prices in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and shows that prices remained…

Vanuatu’s prevalence of physical or sexual violence against women by husbands and partners has fallen by nine percentage points over…

In a new Development Policy Centre discussion paper, we examine how institutional design shapes patterns of cooperation, competition and conflict…

Jose Ramos-Horta, the president of Timor-Leste, for his own political purposes, last week again criticised the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility…

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” declared South African President Nelson Mandela…

Fiji’s government tabled the National Referendum Bill 2025 on 4 December 2025 — the final sitting day of parliament for…

In their meeting on 4 May in Canberra, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Japanese counterpart, Prime Minister Sanae…

From Berlin to Delhi, powerful nations still decide Pacific futures without Pacific voices in the room. The Quad’s latest Fiji…

Australian aid The Albanese government’s fifth federal budget sees Australia’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) increase in nominal terms from an…